App Foundation’s backend team is powering systems and services for Snowsight, Snowflake’s cutting-edge UI. Our mission is to craft innovative backend services, features, tools and infrastructure that bring Snowsight to life with delightful user experiences. As part of our team, you'll dive into a mix of creating features and managing the robust infrastructure that supports them. 

THESE ARE THE AREAS THAT THE TEAM IS INVESTED IN:

• Services: Design, build and maintain a set of common services and features like authentication, session management, notifications, caching and many more that our front end experiences need.
• Developer Platform: Design, develop and maintain modules and recipes that full stack teams can leverage to develop, build and maintain their own services
• Developer Environments: Provide backend environments so internal developers can iterate quickly and safely
• Infrastructure: Automate and run our global fleet of services deployed across multiple cloud provider (AWS, Azure and GCP) regions.

We're passionate about building a platform that is highly reliable, available, maintainable, and scalable. We are a high growth SaaS company and we are looking for exceptional technical leaders like you to help build and scale Snowsight to the next level.

Note: This role is equivalent to a Staff Engineer or Technical Leader position in other companies.

OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

• 8+ years industry experience working on reliable large-scale cloud SaaS environments supporting mission critical, highly-concurrent, high-throughput and low-latency systems.
• Experience leading teams as well as the ability to be an individual contributor and solve deep technical challenges.
• Good knowledge of distributed systems, APIs and cloud computing patterns
• Self-driven & motivated, with a strong work ethic and a passion for problem solving
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Deep understanding of relational databases and/or key value stores. Experience with Postgres and Redis is highly desirable.
• Strong coding skills in object oriented languages like Golang and/or Java. 

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.